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Pvt James Bevan

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Pvt James Bevan

Birth
Herefordshire, England
Death
26 Oct 1894 (aged 73)
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Burial
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Plot
4-53-7
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Son of John Bevan & Ann Burford

Married Mary Shields, 9 May 1850, Allred's Camp, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Married Isabell McPhearson, 3 Nov 1859, Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 3

Bevan, James, a member of the Mormon Battalion, was born in Herefordshire, England, Oct. 18, 1821, baptized October, 1840, emigrated to America in 1842, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Hope," and arrived at Nauvoo, Ill., May 14, 1846. He enlisted as a private in Company A of the Battalion, at Council Bluffs, and on account of sickness became a member of Lieutenant W. W. Willis' detachment, which wintered at Pueblo. He arrived in G. L. S. Valley the following summer under Capt. James Brown. After remaining in the Valley about fourteen months, Beyan returned to the States, in company with Howard Egan and others, but came back to the Valley in the spring of 1852 as a married man, and located in Tooele, Tooele county, Utah, where he resided the remainder of his life. He died Oct. 26, 1894 at Tooele.

Son of John Bevan & Ann Burford

Married Mary Shields, 9 May 1850, Allred's Camp, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Married Isabell McPhearson, 3 Nov 1859, Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 3

Bevan, James, a member of the Mormon Battalion, was born in Herefordshire, England, Oct. 18, 1821, baptized October, 1840, emigrated to America in 1842, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Hope," and arrived at Nauvoo, Ill., May 14, 1846. He enlisted as a private in Company A of the Battalion, at Council Bluffs, and on account of sickness became a member of Lieutenant W. W. Willis' detachment, which wintered at Pueblo. He arrived in G. L. S. Valley the following summer under Capt. James Brown. After remaining in the Valley about fourteen months, Beyan returned to the States, in company with Howard Egan and others, but came back to the Valley in the spring of 1852 as a married man, and located in Tooele, Tooele county, Utah, where he resided the remainder of his life. He died Oct. 26, 1894 at Tooele.

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